Research guides
Less than 1 minute read
Read later
Print
Our practical research guides can help you with your legal research.
For help with your legal research, search our common queries database or see our practical guides on specific topics below.
For tailored research assistance from our team of experienced law librarians, use our enquiry service.
Explore our research guides:
- how to find past solicitors and law firms
- how to find precedents and forms
- how to find law reports
- how to find journal articles
- how to find public general acts
- how to find local and personal or private acts
- how to find statutory instruments
- how to research debates on sections of an act
- how to find parliamentary bills
- how to find official publications
- how to find Scottish law
- how to find Northern Ireland law
- how to find Republic of Ireland law
- how to find Isle of Man and Channel Islands law
- how to find treaties
- how to dispose of your library
Common queries database
This unique source provides short answers based on frequently asked questions and previous research by our librarians.
Over a thousand entries cover where to find specific precedents and more. We scan a huge range of sources to update this resource.